After around 11 hours of sitting on the greyhound bus or in greyhound bus stations, we arrived in Tampa for just 1 day. Greyhound is an experience - it attracts some odd balls and some scary looking people (which probably included us by the time we got off the overnight bus after trying to/no sleep).
We spent the day wandering round Tampa and achieving very little. We managed to miss the shops completely after walking down some dual carriage way for about 2 miles, went on a tram - the hillsborough tram - and then went to the spaghetti warehouse for food which was good but rich (meatballs.com).
No rest for wicked - at 5pm we were back on the greyhound for another 3 hours to Crystal River in Florida (home of the Manatee). We arrived at a closed up shop in a retail park - we were lucky that the manager at the nearby KFC took pity on us and rang Wayne's Taxis to take us to the hotel. We didn't even succumb to KFC. Bath and bed was it.